And "Bobby Fischer Goes to War" underscores the extent to which each player became the uneasy flag-bearer for his government.
The bidding war underscores the lack of growth opportunities as the number of smokers in North America declines.
As the Iraq war underscored, the United States' great power enables it to act alone and still achieve many of its goals swiftly and effectively.
Political analysts said Dr. Dean's advertisement, taking on Mr. Gephardt, Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards for their initial support of the Iraq war, underscored his concern as several competitors have tried to cut into his lead in the polls.
In the late 1960s, events including a California oil spill, a chemical fire on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland and civic protest about napalm and Agent Orange, used in the Vietnam War, underscored her warnings that efforts to control nature threatened man's survival.
His testimony, and the partisan exchanges in the hearing room over whether what he described as an intelligence failure undermined the rationale for going to war, underscored the problem facing President Bush as he tries to deal with the political and diplomatic fallout from Dr. Kay's statements.
Meanwhile, Japanese electronics makers have figured little in the smartphone patent wars, underscoring how negligible a threat they now pose to either Apple or Samsung in the sector.
The agency's internal disarray comes at a time when the country faces extraordinary international challenges, including a massive foreign hacking operation and the looming threat of nuclear war ― underscoring the vital need for a unified, high-functioning State Department.
The director, Mel Williams, deserves credit for recognizing what is original in "Corner Wars" and underscoring it; he has turned a community-center-level project into a legitimate theatrical report from a new but not-so-distant quarter.
The super-pacs' war chests underscore the extraordinary impact they will have on this year's race.
Pairing Mercury with the Lincoln franchise after World War II underscored the theme of what is today called entry-level luxury.
